Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Am I a God who is at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God far away?”
New American Standard Bible
“And not a God far off?
King James Version
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Holman Bible
“Am I a God who is only near”
International Standard Version
"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away?
A Conservative Version
Am I a God at hand, says LORD, and not a God afar off?
American Standard Version
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Bible in Basic English
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
Darby Translation
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Julia Smith Translation
Am I God from near, says Jehovah, and not God from far off?
King James 2000
Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Am] I a God from near," {declares} Yahweh, "and not a God from far?
Modern King James verseion
Am I a God near, says Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Am I then God that seeth but the thing, which is nigh at hand, and not that is afar off? sayeth the LORD.
NET Bible
Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.
New Heart English Bible
Am I a God at hand,' says the LORD, 'and not a God afar off?
The Emphasized Bible
Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
Webster
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off.
World English Bible
Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
Youngs Literal Translation
A God near am I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
Themes
Closeness » The lord being near
God » Is declared to be » Omnipresent
Interlinear
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 23:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithful Prophets
22
“But if they had stood in My council,
Then they would have caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned My people from their evil way
And from the evil of their decisions and deeds.
“Am I a God who is at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God far away?”
“Can anyone hide himself in secret places
So that I cannot see him?” says the Lord.
“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-10
1 Kings 20:23
Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Israel’s
1 Kings 20:28
A man of God approached and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Arameans have said, “The Lord is a god of the hills, but He is not a god of the valleys,” I will give this great army into your hand, and you shall know [by experience] that I am the Lord.’”
Psalm 113:5
Who is like the Lord our God,
Who is enthroned on high,
Ezekiel 20:32-35
What comes into your mind will never happen, when you say, ‘We will be like the [pagan] nations, like the tribes of the [Gentile] countries, serving [idols made of] wood and stone.’
Jonah 1:3-4
But Jonah ran away to Tarshish to escape from the presence of the Lord [and his duty as His prophet]. He went down to